If you live long enough, a lot of stuff will come against you.
Somebody in your family is gonna die.
Somebody in here is gonna get fired.
Somebody in here is gonna get an eviction notice.
Somebody's gonna get laid off.
Somebody's company is gonna close.
Somebody you love is gonna break up with you.
That's life.
But what you gonna do about it though?
There's some things down in you you haven't even discovered yet.
Your wisdom is gonna be made from the elixir of your pain.
You don't know what you've got until all hell breaks loose.
You don't know what you can take until the pressure is applied to your life.
You don't know what you can endure until people stab you in the back
and walk away from you.
You don't know how much courage you have until you've been under fire
and under struggle and under tribulation.
You can't learn what's in you sitting back in the lazy boy chair
hitting the remote control watching HBO and Cinemax.
But when all hell breaks loose...
When you say I can't take this
I can't handle this I don't want any more
this is driving me crazy you are saying, I don't want to go any higher.
Because moving forward and moving up means more problems.
Right now you're being tried.
You're being forged you're being tested
by fire.
And by pain.
If you don't let it break you if you don't let it destroy you
if you don't wimp out and let it beat you down
if you refuse to be intimidated and learn how to manage
the stress on the next level then doors swing open.
When crises strike in your life and in the Chinese language, crises mean
danger but it also means opportunity.
You have the opportunity
to show the world
what you are really made of.
You've got to learn how to become resourceful you've got to learn how to become
creative.
That's the test.
Don't fail the test.
Don't give in don't quit.
Don't ever quit.
Fight on.
You're either going to be emotional or rational.
You will lose the fight if you get too angry.
Because when you're emotional you're not rational.
You have to decide that you are going to be in control
that you are going to do what you want to do.
Make a declaration to yourself declare all out war
that you're going to get out of this rut.
You are declaring martial law on your mind.
Mind control.
Quit waking up thinking you ain't got no say-so in your life.
You have a choice in this matter.
You can't stop what happened to you but you can doggone sure
do something about what happened to you.
Life is 10% what happens to you it's 90% what you do about it.
The most powerful tool that you have right now
in your life is your mind.
That's why the enemy fights you in your mind.
With stress with worry
with aggravation with low self-esteem
with pettiness with anger
with hostility with rebellion.
And he can make you physically sick
because your mind is sick.
So you don't have to get out of trouble.
You just have to get your mind out of trouble.
There's gonna be blessings there's gonna be miracles
there's gonna be opportunities oh yes, there's gonna be some struggles
there's gonna be some challenges there's gonna be some tests
but even the struggles are an opportunity for me to show off the victory
if my mind can handle the change.
You got what it takes.
You may not like what you're going through you may be stressed and overwhelmed
you may not be comfortable with your situation but stop the next devil
that tries to tell you you don't have what it takes
I may have some black eyes and some bruises I may even lost some teeth
but I'm still here.
I didn't give in I didn't back up
I didn't faint I didn't collapse
I didn't run even when I wanted to.
If you can get your mind out you can get your money out.
You get your family out.
You can get your job out.
You can get your career out.
You can get your health out.
You can get your prosperity out.
If you can get your mind out no devil in hell
no weapon formed against you no enemy that hates you
can stop you from being free.
If you can get your mind out grab yourself by the head
and say, we're coming out of there.